Making a TV show involves a lot of people, and people have a stubborn habit of being, you know, people. They have entire lives outside of work, so they can’t always perform like perfect little machines. […]
A big-shot Saturday Night Live veteran like Michael Che doesn’t need to know the name of the latest one-and-done Zoomer whom Lorne Michaels will dump faster than a sketch where a wig is the star. Yesterday afternoon, Saturday […]
When Roseanne decided to pay tribute to Sherwood Schwartz, the Hall of Fame sitcom producer behind Gilligan’s Island and The Brady Bunch, the show decided to go all in. Not only did Roseanne create its own Gilligan fantasy sequence, but it also invited the […]
When Fonzie waterskied over that big fish, he left a legacy of bad TV but also gnarly waves in his wake. That shark isn’t what plunged Happy Days into the toilet, however — it merely heralded it. If […]
The best thing about movies is that they’re not real. That unfortunately means you can’t hook up with any of the Kens in Barbieland, but it does mean Barbieland can exist, as well as anything else those […]
Was anyone else up at the crack of dawn this morning to hear Howard Stern reveal his radio future? We all got yoinked, with a live show replaced by old clips of George Takei’s birthday […]
Up and down, black and white, peanut butter and jelly, heroes and villains — none of these things would be the same without the other. Without a villain to fight or at least get really mad […]
One advantage of a series over a movie is that it gives its characters a lot more time to develop. Rather than trying to wrap up an entire hero’s journey over the course of a tight 100 […]
When you think of the Addams family, you don’t usually think “pink.” In fact, Barbie’s Dreamhouse was downright antithetical to the Addams house’s color scheme, which can be best described as shades of black. That […]
Homer Simpson. Dr. Gregory House. Those kittens of Tommen Baratheon’s that showed up in one episode of Game of Thrones and we’re never seen again. These are some of the most beloved characters in TV history, […]
Thanks to an infinite sea of streaming platforms, the proliferation of the indies and an insatiable audience demanding a neverending stream of content, they’re cranking out movies at a faster pace than ever before. Unfortunately, that means […]
Kaitlin Olson’s role as Dee Reynolds largely consists of debaucherous acts like prodigious vomiting, screaming expletives and diving headfirst into parked cars, but she really wants you to know she’s actually a trained actress. Olson’s mission to […]
Not to hike our pants up to our nipples, but there was once a time when we had three TV channels, and we either picked whatever was playing on one of them or we didn’t watch anything. […]
Longtime Saturday Night Live cast member and former co-head writer Michael Che can’t stop making coy, cryptic posts about his possible departure from the show while his colleagues are getting the ax. Maybe Lorne Michaels should […]
People arrive in Hollywood every day, fresh-faced and coughing slightly, convinced they’ve got the next big idea that’s going to make Warner Bros. a huge tax write-off. Nobody ever told them that the idea is the easy part. […]
Before Katey Sagal became sitcom royalty as Peg Bundy on Married… With Children, she spent years as a musician and singer. Her pipes were strong enough to earn her stage time with a weird assortment of musicians, […]
TV writers will take some pretty desperate measures to bring a moribund series back from the brink of ratings death. There might be dramatic births, shocking murders, water skis and aquatic life or even just a new […]
We now have a better idea of what will greet us when the Belcher family returns this fall. Bob’s Burgers supervising director Simon Chong recently offered fans a glimpse at what’s in store for Bob, Linda, […]
Lorne Michaels promised that all would be revealed about Saturday Night Live cast changes this week, and Michael Che got a jump on things on Sunday night by dropping hints on his Instagram Story. “this next week […]
The realm of fiction has room for all kinds of people, from superheros to supervillains, at least if the box office is to be believed. It’s true that more ordinary characters tend to be relegated to […]